Hey there, it's Gary Parrish. It's Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Welcome back to the CBS Sports

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And so we're coming to all of a holiday a week. And I hope everybody enjoyed it.

We actually haven't had an episode since USC and UCLA announced a move from the

Pac-12 to the Big 10. But we're here now. And the latest development, it appears,

is that our colleague Dennis Dodd has reported that the Big 12 recognizing the instability

of the Pac-12 smelling blood in the water is trying to lure at least four possibly six

Pac-12 schools to join the Big 12 simply put the Big 10 in the SEC are about to be a power

to the ACC seems vulnerable on some level. And the Pac-12 appears to be maybe just maybe

on life support. Make sense of it, Deadleg. It's been a bit of a while, a few days in conference

realignment news. We got a lot to get to right to be back to take a little vacation last

week. And it took like a 10 day respite true social media blackout with the exception

of the like nine minutes I hopped on when this all happened. Cause just real quick rewind

all the way last Thursday, take my oldest son to his first movie experience ever. We saw

the light your movie within five minutes of that movie starting. I get a text from someone,

a source saying, Hey, USC and UCLA to the Big 10 seems like something's brewing there,

but it might be fishy. I was like, All right, I'm on vacation, but I'll make a couple

calls after this movie ends 20 minutes later. The same source texted me, John Wilner's

tweet, Wilner, wonderful reporter out west was the one who I guess broke this story.

Apparently, there was no indication of it prior to that. But man, oh man. Yeah. So here

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